Security Guards
Lexington Park, MD metropolitan area. Estimated employment 380.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of security guards in Lexington Park earn more.
$44,880 in Lexington Park buys what $44,500 buys across the country as a whole.
Lexington Park's regional price parity is 100.8 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Maryland
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Lexington Park |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Park This page | $44,880 | $44,500 | 100.8 | — |
| Salisbury | $37,180 | $38,900 | 95.6 | −12.7% |
| Baltimore | $36,970 | $35,400 | 104.5 | −20.6% |
| Hagerstown | $33,990 | $36,100 | 94.2 | −19.0% |
Price parity and difference against Lexington Park are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 380 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 33-9032, Security Guards. Mapped to our taxonomy as security-guards.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.